Melbourne, Aus: A year after launching Australia’s first female-focussed reward-based crowdfunding platform, Lift Women is undeniably making funding more possible and accessible for girls and women, and changing the narrative for female entrepreneurs.

Their newest initiative, Lift Angels™, aims to amplify the impact by pioneering a revolutionary community model that creates a circular and sustainable funding ecosystem for women-led businesses and startups.

It is more than just an annual membership to a shared-value community of like-minded people; it generates a ripple effect by leveraging the power of the crowd as 50% of the annual fee goes directly into an innovative Pay-It-Forward Fund.

The Pay-It-Forward Fund is equity-free, debt-free money that is awarded to live projects as further funding. Lift Women are striving to raise $100,000 for the Fund in 2022 to support at least 20-30 female founders with extra money to reach their crowdfunding goal.

This comes off the back of many accomplishments over only 12 months including:

* The launch of the 2021 Female Founder Grant Challenge, in partnership with national and global partners like LegalVision and Viable Partner, which received over 100 applications with over 2 million social impressions. Two female entrepreneurs were granted a Jumpstarter Kit, valued at $15,000 each including a $5,000 cash grant.
* A ground-breaking partnership with Global Sisters - Australia’s leading NGO on a mission to make business possible for all women - on International Women’s Day 2022. This joint crowdfunding campaign supported 12 Australian female-led businesses and social enterprises.
* The Launch of TickHER - an original show in partnership with Ticker News that showcases inspiring and successful female entrepreneurs. The show accumulated almost 500K views in the first 8 episodes.
* Assembling global executive leaders of impact to accelerate growth and geographic expansion including Peter Crewe, Managing Director of Ziffa Group Limited, Gordon Watson, Chief Executive Officer of AXA Asia & Africa and Alan Fung, Managing Director at Viable Partners, ex KPMG Partner.

To learn more about Lift Angels™: www.liftwomen.com/liftangels
To learn more about Lift Women: www.liftwomen.com

Lift Women is Australia’s first female-focussed crowdfunding platform that’s closing the funding gap to back women in entrepreneurship and empower them to live a life to its fullest potential. We connect female entrepreneurs to not only backers and funding, but pivotal resources and relationships, while also operating on a social impactful model.